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HE DESIRES AGAIN TO GAZE ON THE EYES Of LAURA.
I now perceived that from within me fled / Those spirits to which you their being lend; / And since by nature's dictates to defend / Themselves from death all animals are made, / The reins I loosed, with which Desire I stay'd, / And sent him on his way without a friend; / There whither day and night my course he'd bend, / Though still from thence by me reluctant led.